It is scary for an actor when you get hired as a lead. No matter what the plot is, it is your job to do something interesting enough to make them want to get inside the lead character’s head.
I’ve learned by hanging out in Hollywood, where I disagree politically with most people, that most people’s hearts are in the right place, and the only thing we have to argue about is the way to solve the problems.
There was a time I could have been mistaken for Burt Reynolds. I had a moustache and so did he. But he was the number one star in the world, so there wasn’t really much confusion.
Few of us are as good as we think we are; none of us are as good as we can be.
Unless you treat failure as part of the journey, you’re never going to get anywhere.
I’ve never reacted well to other people telling me what to do.
It’s not that conservatives don’t care. We do. We just have different answers than liberals do. It’s a difference of the mind, not of the heart.
At my age, turning gray is kind of a blessing, where it softens all of the other horrible things it does to you, but it is what it is.
My mustache gets so many questions he has his own agen now.
Risk is the price you pay for opportunity.
The two things that will defeat a lot of young actors are fear of failure and lack of preparation. With acting, I didn’t have a problem with either one – but somehow I didn’t equate either one of them to the academic world.
I live a pretty simple life.
I praise CBS for taking a risk, which is always the price you pay for opportunity. This is not standard movie of the week storytelling. I think movies of the week have fallen into a niche and that isn’t my niche.
I guess after Dances With Wolves they probably tried some derivative westerns, and if they didn’t work, they said the western is dead and moved on to something else.
Life isn’t fair, but you can be.